Urban Vancouver

Get over your whiteness: On political correctness

By samanthaorwell on June 12, 2008 - 12:54pm

READ FULL HERE:
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-over-your-whitenes...

I was recently invited to put my opinion down on rabble.ca, a national progressive political website. In true VancouverManifesto style I have been prohibited to post due to my language being interpreted as racist, amongst other things.

When did we become SO hypersensitive and SO politically correct? Political correctness is just an attempt to "make pretty" real issues. Political correctness is an ideology in itself- an assumption that you are doing justice and correcting wrongs by stepping around the raw words that have been used in a derogatory way in the past towards marginalized groups. Pretending that constructions of race, gender and other ideologies do not exist do not do justice to those who were/are marginalized- it conceals the fact that racISM and sexISM DO exist. Not recognizing that there is difference and that people perceive eachother with such difference (whether we like it or not) also does not do justice.

PC is just a way to "make us all equal". I do believe in equality in humanity, that every person should be treated with equal respect. But I also believe that history has not treated us in such a way. "There is nothing so unequal as treating unequal people equally." PC terms attempt to erase that groups have been terribly wronged and pretend that we all just need to clean the slate and start off fresh. Wrong. We need to recognize that there IS imbalance, history has CREATED inequity, and we need to FACE it head on and redress what we have done.

Anyways, that rant was bit beyond the scope of what I take issue with, but I am unhappy that people are so touchy and I find it offensive that people are SUCH on the defensive that they assume the worst.

Go ahead and see for yourself:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=002026

Good lord. White hetero males can't catch a break. It's good that I am none of those...

you can disagree with me, but don't censor me.

Labels: ideology, political correctness, rabble, racism, sexism